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The art and cultural hiking trail leads you on a round ways through the vineyards around Alzey past lovely art works and picturesque vineyard houses. Book a guided tour or walk on your own. Download the brochure or order it online
Here you can see a section of an early medieval long-distance water pipeline. It was found in the immediate vicinity in 2004. Scientifically, it was dated to the construction period of the imperial palace, i.e. to the end of the 8th century AD. The long-distance water pipeline carried high-quality drinking water from the "Karlsquelle" spring area near Heidesheim via the Wackernheim valley to Nieder-Ingelheim, to Charlemagne's palace. This was done via a 6.8 km long canal, most of which ran underground. The construction, made of quarried…
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The museum exhibits original finds from the Urrhine near Eppelsheim, which are around 10 million years old, and casts or copies of rare fossils. These include teeth and bone fragments of rhinoceroses, great apes and proboscis animals such as dinotheria and mastodons. Single specimens of the primeval horse, tapi r( claw-footed hoofed animal), Muntja deer, bear hound, beaver and pig are also on display. The centrepiece of the museum is a cast of the skull of a Dinotherium (Dinotherium giganteum), which was recovered from Klipstein and Kaup in…
From 1904, Frei-Weinheim had a railroad connection for freight and passenger traffic for exactly 50 years. The former station building in the local style is still preserved. The single-track Selztalbahn connected the Rhine-Hessian hinterland from Jugenheim-Partenheim with the port in Frei-Weinheim. In Nieder-Ingelheim, there was a connection to the Ludwigsbahn on the left bank of the Rhine, which had been running between Mainz and Bingen since 1859. Since the Selztalbahn was mainly used to transport sugar beets, it was called the…
A gate leads to the area of the modern Jewish cemetery. This was at the latest in the 18th century in the former kennel, a only five meters narrow strip next to the Aula regia. Most of the graves probably date from the 19th century, due to the However, due to severe weathering of the tombstones, an exact dating is no longer possible. After the National Socialist seizure of power, the Jewish cemetery was expropriated in 1935. All 25 tombstones were in the Jewish cemetery in Relocated Ober-Ingelheim. When the entrance to the Aula regia was…
The Rohrwiesen biotope can be seen from far away on the Hiwweltour Zornheimer Berg. The many species in the biotope welcome hikers with an intensive natural background noise, which only decreases when the Hiwweltour passes into the vineyards.